Prosecutors from the Aibonito district attorney’s office asked a judge to cancel a November 24 evidence hearing and to deny a new trial for Elvia Cabrera Rivera, convicted in the August 2025 killing of 16-year-old Gabriela Nicole Pratts Rosario in Aibonito, Puerto Rico. In an 11-page motion, prosecutors Silda Rubio Barreto, Myriam Nieves Vera, Belinda Brignoni and Jackeline Pizarro Gutiérrez asked Judge Vannessa I. Méndez Torres of the Guayama court to suspend the hearing, set for 9:00 AM on Tuesday, November 24, in courtroom 3 of the Aibonito court, where Cabrera Rivera’s daughter and co-defendant, Anthonieska Avilés Cabrera, is to testify for the first time.
Méndez Torres took the case after Judge Luis S. Barreto Altieri recused himself and ordered the Department of Correction and Rehabilitation (DCR) to arrange the transfer of both convicted women; she also summoned Mariela Cabrera Rivera, Avilés Cabrera’s representative and custodian. The prosecutors cited Rule 192.1(b) of criminal procedure, arguing the court may rule without an evidentiary hearing because the defense motion and case file show conclusively that the defendant has no right to relief.
They said the new-trial request by lawyers Mayra López Mulero, Alberto Rivera Ramos and Yancarlos Maysonet Hernández rests on information known at trial. Pratts Rosario, nicknamed "Lela," was attacked with a pink comb hiding a knife during a brawl on the night of Sunday, August 10, 2025, at the Roberto Colón detour in Aibonito.